Title The life and labours of George Washington Walker, of Hobart Town, Tasmania / by James Backhouse and Charles Tylor

Published London : A.W. Bennett ; York [England] : Thomas Brady, 1862

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Description xii, 556 pages, 12 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : portrait ; 22 cm Series Friendly counsel; addressed to the working classes Summary p.43-44; Firing of huts & killing at Green Valley; p.46-47; Description of wooden spears & waddy; p.88-112; Aborigines on Flinders & Green Islands shelters, physical appearance, body ornamentation & scarification; foods - cooking & eating of mutton birds, other types of food, dancing, types of songs, hostile feeling between Port Dalrymple & Western tribes; inspection of site for new Settlement; illnesses believed to be agency of malevolent being, after-death beliefs; women belonging to sealers, treatment of women by sealers; necklaces presented to party; p.116, 119; Saving Aboriginal women from the sealers; p.120; Method of cremation (Western tribes); p.224-227; Visit to Wellington Valley Mission - killing of unwanted babies, prejudice against half-caste children; p.240-243; Moreton Island; Corroboree, notes on fishing nets, spears, clubs, boomerangs; Amity Point; Huts, foods; p.259; Shoalhaven area; Foods, transmigration of souls, belief about porpoises; p.283; Perth; Treatment of natives, early conflict between Murray & Swan tribes, relations between settlers & Aborigines Notes Ferguson no. 6473 Bibliography Smith I: 156 Notes Also available electronically at Google Books: http://books.google.com Subject Walker, George W. (George Washington), 1800-1859 Walker, George Washington, 1800-1859 -- Correspondence. Walker, George Washington, 1800-1859 -- Diaries. Walker, George Washington, 1800-1859. Walker, George Washington Wellington Valley Mission (N.S.W.) Society of Friends -- Missions -- Australia -- Tasmania. Missionaries -- Australia -- Tasmania -- Biography. Quakers -- Australia -- Tasmania -- Biography. SUBJECT Australia -- Description and travel. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85009579 South Africa -- Description and travel. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85125459 Tasmania -- Description and travel. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh88006700 Tasmania -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh88004479 Tasmania http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79115474 -- Social conditions http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2001008850 -- 1803-1900 Genre/Form Autobiographies. Author Backhouse, James, 1794-1869. Tylor, Charles, 1816-1902.

Other Titles Life of George Washington Walker

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